Our planned new hospital building at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) will include a new adults’ hospital, a new home for Leeds Children’s Hospital, and the UK’s largest single site maternity and neonatal centre. Leeds is one of the largest providers of specialist hospitals services in the country so our new facilities will serve patients locally, regionally, nationally, and even in some cases internationally.
This huge investment will produce a building designed to offer our patients modern, individual healthcare based on the most advanced treatments, technologies, innovation and research. It is an ambitious, long-term development that will change the way we think about hospital care.
A new home for Leeds Children’s Hospital
Leeds Children’s Hospital is currently one of the largest specialist hospitals for children and young people in the country. Over 80% of the services it delivers are specialist and it provides one of the most comprehensive ranges of paediatric services in the UK, including cancer treatment, transplantation and congenital heart surgery.
A new adults’ hospital
The new adults’ hospital will support patients across the care pathway, from those attending for an outpatient appointment or a day case surgical procedure to those needing our most advanced care and support to recover from critical illness or injury. As one of the country’s largest and leading hospital trusts, we are delighted by what the new hospital means for the health and wellbeing of the people of West Yorkshire, but this is about more than healthcare.
A new centralised maternity centre
For the first time in Leeds, a new maternity centre will incorporate a midwifery-led unit and co-locate all inpatient maternity and specialist neonatal services on one site and become one of the largest single-site maternity units in the UK. The new centre will support the delivery of approximately 10,500 babies a year from across Leeds and Yorkshire with all facilities co-located in one place. This will reduce the need for
mothers and ill babies being transferred or being separated at a crucial time when they need each other the most.
Our Progress
The new hospital development is a major part of our wider programme of healthcare improvement, and we have already made fantastic progress. Many of our enabling works are already complete and others are in development ready to support the construction of the new healthcare facilities.
Our Building the Leeds Way Programme Team has been working with architects, designers and leading global suppliers to shape our vision and complete the design for our new hospital. We will continue working closely with the Government’s New Hospitals Programme team, to realise our ambition and start building as soon as possible, because we are ready.
We are ready to deliver our Hospital of the Future and bring much needed new healthcare facilities to Leeds. We are ready to develop ground-breaking treatment for our patients.